[NO ISSUE][EXT] Advance Avro version

- user model changes: no
- storage format changes: no
- interface changes: no

Details:

- Advance avro version to address CVEs.

Ext-ref: MB-64327
Change-Id: I552de3d5c22171efce8138b53d87fd645dd051fb
Reviewed-on: https://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu/c/asterixdb/+/19139
Tested-by: Murtadha Hubail <mhubail@apache.org>
Reviewed-by: Murtadha Hubail <mhubail@apache.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Blow <mblow@apache.org>
diff --git a/asterixdb/pom.xml b/asterixdb/pom.xml
index 374a717..3620f8e 100644
--- a/asterixdb/pom.xml
+++ b/asterixdb/pom.xml
@@ -2063,7 +2063,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
         <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
-        <version>1.11.3</version>
+        <version>1.12.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.iceberg</groupId>